[Foundation-l] English Wikipedia ethnocentric policy affects other communities
Anthere
Anthere9 at yahoo.com
Fri Dec 22 11:46:36 UTC 2006
geni wrote:
> On 12/22/06, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>It is your choice not to install fonts. So this is self inflicted
>>damage. Something you punish others for.
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> I could make wikipedia pretty much un-useable in IE (and partly
> firefox) your choice not to run opera.
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>>With SUL you can check out who and what they are within WMF. They will
>>not only have but also have en.wikipedia history. So in stead of not
>>knowing who they are you will find that they have extended history in
>>other projects.
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> In a small number of cases
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>>So you will have gained a way of identifying your
>>vandals in stead of lost a way of identifying them.
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> How do I tell a vandle from a newbie from Ja.wikipeida?
What about seeing a "sign" (newbie) near the name of a user registered
since less than 1 month ago, and with less than 100 edits all projects
accross in the last month ?
Ant
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